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Poster:	Diamondhead	Date:	Jan 8, 2015 9:30am
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Zakir Hussain

Interesting piece for those interested in the side that Mickey brought to the table.

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/08/375637915/the-tabla-master-who-jammed-with-the-grateful-dead

Zakir Hussain stuck with the tabla and built a career, playing classical music but also experimenting with the instrument. He landed in San Francisco at the height of the hippie era, and became a fixture of the marathon jam sessions held by The Grateful Dead at the band's barn-turned-studio.

"The shortest one was probably two and a half days long — I'm not kidding," Hussain says. "But I do remember ... waking up sleeping on the floor, and looking up and seeing Jerry Garcia and David Crosby playing. And I'd just kind of rub my eyes and pick up a drum, which was just lying on the floor, and start playing. This was a constant thing. It was a never-ending musical conversation."